Riparian vegetation assessment of Cauvery River Basin of South India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 170, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 545-553

  Sunil, C ^a   Somashekar, R K ^a   Nagaraja, B C ^a  

^a BANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cauvery river; Riparian; Shannon Weiner diversity; Species similarity

Indexed keywords

AGRO ECOSYSTEMS; ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; BASAL AREA; CAUVERY RIVER; FOREST ZONES; GRAZING AREAS; MEAN DENSITY; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PRESENT STATUS; RIPARIAN; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIPARIAN FORESTS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER BASINS; SAND MINING; SHANNON-WEINER DIVERSITY; SITE DISTURBANCE; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOUTH INDIA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES SIMILARITY; STUDY SITES; TREE SPECIES; VEGETATION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DENSITY;

FORESTRY; RIVERS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER BASIN;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FICUS BENGHALENSIS; FICUS RELIGIOSA; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PONGAMIA PINNATA; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIPARIAN SPECIES; RIVER; SALIX TETRASPERMA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA ARJUNA; TERMINALIA INDICA; TREE; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; PLANTS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INDIA; PLANTS; RIVERS; WATER SHEDS;

CAUVERY RIVER; INDIA;

EID: 77957662759     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1256-3     Document Type: Article

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